The invention discloses a microwave photon mixing method and system based on local oscillator frequency doubling, and belongs to the fields of optical communication and microwave photonics. The microwave photon mixing system based on local oscillator frequency doubling is formed by utilizing a double-polarization double-parallel mach-zehnder modulator through combination with devices such as a laser, a front polarization controller, a microwave 90-degree coupler, a rear polarization controller, an optical fiber polarizer, an adjustable optical band-pass filter, an erbium-doped fiber amplifier,a photoelectric detector and the like. The system adopts second-order local oscillator sideband and first-order radio frequency sideband beat frequencies, and mixing processing based on local oscillator frequency doubling can be realized; on one hand, the frequency requirement of a mixing system on a local oscillator signal is reduced, and on the other hand, due to the fact that a single-sidebandmodulation mode is adopted, stray signals can be effectively reduced. In addition, the mixing method can realize switching of up conversion and down conversion by changing a direct current bias voltage, and can be used for time-sharing transmitting and receiving of radio frequency.